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Fool Me Once - Netflix - Question (SPOILER)

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RelaxedPigeon · 02/01/2024 18:16

I've just finished watching this and enjoyed it a lot depsite some huge plot holes.

I don't understand something though and wondered if I'd missed something which would explain it. How did the nanny & her boyfriend (or how did Judith) know about the camera in the picture frame? Maya told the nanny about it AFTER seeing Joe on the video on the SD card. Was Eva somehow involved in the setting up of Maya? Maybe all this was explained, if so, I missed it!

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Crunchymum · 18/01/2024 22:20

Just finished the series and overall I'm pretty disappointed.

I'm confused as to why the detective was taking the Burkett medication to begin with? He had to already be taking the medication to suffer the side effects?

What happened to Marty when Kierse went to arrest Maya? I mean K was suspended afterall so how could he have called off Marty (after telling him Maya had killed Joe)

Maya knew all along that Joe killed Claire was she trying to retrospectively find out why? Although she also seemed to know why in the weird flashback scenes of episode 8. It was all far too convoluted for me.

Did Claire find out Joe has killed his brother? Or had she just uncovered the dodgy drug results?

Do I even care? 😂

Belinda5 · 23/01/2024 11:28

I enjoyed this but agree the whole nanny cam thing was very confusing.

I hated the epilogue. Lily would only have been 20. Surely it would have been better to show her enjoying college with her friends, than in a maternity hospital with a new baby. Likewise, when Eddie was asked how his children were he replied 'Abby has two of her own now'. Nothing about her job or the son having children. It seems as if Harlen Coben judges women's success and worth simply by having children.

FeltCarrot · 24/01/2024 09:20

Agree with all the comments on here, what a load of rubbish.
MK did look impossibly beautiful dead though.
Best thing about it was Arley Hall ( went to a wedding there and it is a lovely building!)

autienotnaughty · 25/01/2024 05:54

Agree with all of the points on here. A good thriller leads you down several paths but also clears up any loose ends.

The main issue is Claire was looking into the pharmaceutical company so the stuff around Joe when he was a kid was completely irrelevant.

Any why was maya looking into joes death. She killed him surely she would be better to keep her head down.

The bullet testing apparently took place before joes death so maybe the nanny can gift did too. So Judith could have been aware of it.

Meadowy · 25/01/2024 06:15

it was very, very stupid and it m annoyed that I watched it. MKs lips were very distracting and all the characters behaved in unlikely and stupid ways. The policeman was fab though. When we first saw his dead fiancé she was on a chair as part of his aa circle - was everyone hallucinating her 🤣?

ChateauMargaux · 25/01/2024 08:34

I want to know how Maya figured out that Joe killed Claire..... I get that she then wanted to find out why... but she knew he took and shot the gun... was that it?

I find some of the army parts implausible. Especially the idea of an Irish person being in the British army... I know there are approximately 1000... but it is rare.

Why was Tommy Dark paid 1.5m over the years and lived in a bungalow and worked out of a portacabin?

The family conpany board meeting, complete with mentally unstable embarassing sister, was also implausible.

LittleMonks11 · 25/01/2024 08:48

The whole thing was one long acid trip

BlackWitchyCat · 25/01/2024 17:38

Meadowy · 25/01/2024 06:15

it was very, very stupid and it m annoyed that I watched it. MKs lips were very distracting and all the characters behaved in unlikely and stupid ways. The policeman was fab though. When we first saw his dead fiancé she was on a chair as part of his aa circle - was everyone hallucinating her 🤣?

There were lots of flash backs. Did anyone acknowledge her? Maybe she was alive then and that's how they met? Wasn't the guy in Killing Eve? I think he's great but I think he's been a detective in everything I've seen him in 🤣

BlackWitchyCat · 25/01/2024 17:40

I've just googled him. No way is he 43!! That's 3 years older than me!!

Goditswindy · 25/01/2024 17:55

Everyone asking why she didn't wear a flak jacket or put blanks in the gun, I thought she quite obviously couldn't cope with having killed the civilians back in the day and this was her way of atoning the situation, giving her life for all of theirs and taking down the awful family with her

MikeRafone · 25/01/2024 18:31

Oldtadger · 06/01/2024 10:45

There are quite a few issues with the plot and the dialogue.
Det Kierce didn't want his medical condition on his GP's records so h went to a pretty high end private hospital and yet he convinced Maya he was skint. Plus, top end hospitals will NOT treat/test you for anything without a GP referral. I needed a referral to have a Covid test when trying to travel during the lock down.

Then we see the same skint detective driving in a pretty slick Jag. This was after he was suspended so it would have been his own car. Skint!

The roof scene was a farce. No Police person would chase someone into such a position of danger and, certainly, would not follow someone putting both of them in such danger.

Then there was the "Amercanising" of the dialogue - "Get in the trunk!" There were others. Totally unnecessary.

Harlan Coben weaves very complex storylines but often fails to spot obvious errors or flaws. This is the last of his series I'll watch. Pretty rubbish all-in-all.

Harlan Coben he is northern American so would guess that is his language, if its truly set in uk then obviously research of language hasn't been completed?

LadyWiddiothethird · 26/01/2024 18:25

I was in the Army,nothing unusual about being Irish in the British Army!It is not a rarity as a previous poster said.

Oldtadger · 31/01/2024 19:33

MikeRafone · 25/01/2024 18:31

Harlan Coben he is northern American so would guess that is his language, if its truly set in uk then obviously research of language hasn't been completed?

I think it's more likely Netflix have "Americanised" to avoid confusing or upsetting their north American customers. Coben isn't that ignorant of the vocabulary differences.

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